Re: Re: Re: Again String vs.Tuba Post.Analyse


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Posted by Volker on November 01, 2002 at 16:43:34:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Again String vs.Tuba Post.Analyse posted by AW on November 01, 2002 at 13:01:02:

Maybe the changes in music sound and style are also manipulated by some lobbyists as changes are in the world of dress fashion design. If the public media institutions offer 90% pop, rock, and vocal singer "softies" 24 hours a day, and 90% is targeted at (the not yet settled) youngsters' taste, it will be getting people's standard sooner or later.
I was a quite skilled Hammond Organ player, but had to realize, that within only a few years by the end of the 70s, this sound got completely out - in spite of the many different ways of sound, style, genre etc. that you can perform with a real big Hammond.
It was the time, when the public radio stations had thinned out this kind of instrumental music in a drastical way. It seems to me, they (as the incorporated music industry or it's protagonists) control what has to be in and what out.
In the past we had domestic TV folklore music as a mix of vocal and brass instrumental in a quite balanced quote here in Germany. However, since a couple of years, they just favor vocalists, small "Oberkrainer" groups etc. only - in spite of the fact, that the audience in the huge halls gives a maximum of applause to any top big brass band in case there is really one to show up from time to time (for just one piece to play only).
Young people do not want to be in a minority group, they want to gather and join the "pack" what they consider to be advanced. Seems that the law of quick changing fashion does not spare us with our brass niche.



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